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San Mateo, California, US

• Responsible for the design, development, testing and Cloud operations of Guidewire’s analytics products, including Cyence Risk Analytics and Predictive Analytics
• Managed 100 person globally distributed engineering organization consisting of data scientists, risk modelers, data engineers, cybersecurity analysts, UI engineers, QA engineers, DevOps engineers and technical writers

San Mateo, CA, US

• Cyence, founded in 2014 and backed by New Enterprise Associates and Institutional Venture Partners, was first to market with a cyber-risk modeling platform for the financial services industry. Cyence was acquired by.
• Member of founding executive team responsible for R&D and involved in decision-making around product strategy, fundraising (series B), business development, customer acquisition, and customer support
• Built initial application prototype on AWS using MEAN tech stack (MongoDB, Express.js, Angular, Node.js)
• Scaled engineering team in SanMateo, CA and Chennai, India to 60+ engineers and data scientists; made key hires from network
• Led engineering teams to build and enhance Cyence’s AWS-based data platform which ingests terabytes of data to feed proprietary machine-learning algorithms to quantify cyber-risk; developed processes for managing data.
• Managed information security for both internal development processes as well as safeguarding customer data; led cross-functional team to acquire ISO 27001 certification in 2016

Redwood City, CA, US

• Managed R&D of the Informatica Tools Platform and PowerCenter family of products, including PowerCenter Designer (ETL), PowerCenter Administration Console, Informatica Data Services (data federation/virtualization).
• Founding member of an incubation project which led to the release of Informatica Enterprise Data Preparation, a Cloud-based self-service data discovery and cleansing tool for business users. Led technical efforts to.

Redwood City, CA, US

• Managed R&D and sustaining efforts for PowerCenter, Metadata Manager & Business Glossary, Data Services and Data Validation products
• Delivered consecutive on-time releases of the Informatica platform and PowerCenter family of products, acting as overall release manager/“scrum master” for a geographically distributed set of product teams across.
• Spearheaded adoption of Agile/XP methodologies across various development teams and facilitated training and identification of best practices

Redwood City, CA, US

• Conceptualized the Informatica Analyst product, enabling data analysts to create and run ETL jobs using a highly interactive “query-by-example” interface without requiring knowledge of ETL transformations
• Managed development of Informatica Analyst and led efforts across business units to adopt it as the unified web-based framework for a suite of data integration and data quality applications – including data.

Redwood City, CA, US

• Responsible for application and user-interface architecture and development of web-based data integration tools, including Metadata Manager & Business Glossary (data governance) and Informatica Analyst (data.
• Led research and development efforts around Ajax and Rich Internet technologies such as Dojo, Isomorphic SmartClient, Adobe Flex, SVG, GWT, SmartGWT, Ext-JS and jQuery

US

Responsible for all aspects of user-interface development at this 30-person startup specializing in dynamic planning solutions for sales and operations planning (S&OP)

US

Responsible for all aspects of user-interface at this 35-person startup specializing in supply chain and business performance management solutions

US

Managed a group of software developers and QA engineers responsible for the development and testing of web applications for Moai's flagship product, LiveExchange, a Java-based enterprise commerce solution for b2b auctions and strategic sourcing/procurement

Responsible for architecture, technology evaluation, implementation, testing, deployment and administration of website at this small internet startup specializing in mobile connectivity solutions (Zimba was acquired by Informatica in August 2000)

Austin, Texas, US

• Managed user-interface development for several consecutive releases of Oracle Discoverer, a desktop business intelligence tool enabling OLAP/multi-dimensional data access to relational databases using an intuitive.
• Designed, architected and developed much of the user-interface and application/document logic of Oracle Discoverer 3.x, using Visual C++ and MFC for Win 95/NT.
• Member of a development team for Oracle Browser 1.0 and 2.0 (later renamed Discoverer/2000), a graphical query tool for relational databases.

Member of a development team for Colortron, a low-cost, high-precision color measurement device with accompanying software for Mac/Windows. Colortron won several industry awards, including a MacUser Eddy Award for 1994's "Best Prepress" product. In 1996, privately held Light Source was acquired by X-Rite Inc.

Ba, Computer Science

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